I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
AL PACINOThe physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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